Creative thriller of a couple during their anniversary getaway with a reveal for ages.
“If every story had a happy ending, then we’d have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart.”
A married couples anniversary getaway to revive their marriage in a isolated Scottish village is the perfect setup for a domestic thriller. Story is told through both of their perspectives and some flashbacks letters with a finale, a twist that is more than worth it.
I have read now few thrillers to understand a pattern. Never trust the narrator, in fact do not trust any character. The reveal is worth when you keep trying to figure out what is happening and why. In Rock, paper, scissors, Alice Feeney not just tells the readers the setting but describes it in enough details, exactly to my liking. The motives and emotional state of characters are explained enough without revealing their ulterior motive. A touch of hint every chapter to indicate something sinister is going on. The misdirection of story telling is absolutely on point, that you do not feel it exhaustive when you read through it one or two sitting.
“I’ve heard people describe marriage as two missing pieces of a puzzle coming together, and discovering that they are a perfect fit. But that’s just wrong… Two pieces of different puzzles cannot and will not fit together, unless one has been forced to bend or break or change to fit around the other.”
Thriller books seems to be my genre mainly for the satisfaction that one feels from final reveal is everything that we read thrillers for. Rock, paper scissors is another must read in Alice Feeney’s list of thrillers. I plan to read her other books.
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